"Life must not cease," the serpent declares to Adam and Eve in George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah." "That comes before everything." That may sound obvious, but Shaw wasn't so sure Europe believed it during World War I. No wonder he wiped the slate clean to start "Methuselah" with the serpent teaching a wide-eyed Adam and Eve such basic words as "life" and "kill" while marveling at the imaginative possibilities…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:52PM on February 25, 2014